"I do these things, as an actor, that I would have been oblivious to, if I hadn't studied acting. You start to understand the emotions and feelings, as close as you can get to them. That really helps. Acting literally saved my life. It helped me not become one of the statistics of all the military members taking their lives because of depression and PTSD."

-- Travis Aaron Wade

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“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I've read and what I haven't read.”
“Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world.”

Source : "Questions for John Lahr" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.
“Blame it on Peer Pressure.”
“Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.”
“It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.”
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”

Source : "Gratitude in Grief: Finding Daily Joy and a Life of Purpose Following the Death of My Son" by Kelly S. Buckley, (p. 133), 2010.
“This sound meditation is gentle and subtle, but its benefits are extensive, in that it allows you to gently release tension that arises from your present circumstances, and if you choose to work with it further it can help release negativity from your past.”
“Party domination and State leadership are concepts incompatible with one another.”

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